RISULTATI RICERCA

L’articolo descrive le implicazioni del postulato dell’isomorfismo e dell’indissolubile unità corpo-mente-ambiente sulla ricerca fenomenologica, in cui la teoria è concatenata all’esperienza, partendo dalla concretezza dell’esperienza corporea. Vengono presentati i risultati preliminari di una ricerca che coinvolge pazienti con cardiomiopatia di tako-tsubo (CT), una sindrome cardiaca acuta indotta dallo stress, applicando una metodologia in cui i meccanismi coinvolti nella patologia, gli elementi qualitativo-fenomenologici e quelli quantitativi (test di Rorschach), risultano complementari.

The instructions given to interviewers in research institutes are often aimed at standardizing their behaviour, assuming that this can lead to comparable answers. However, in more recent methodological debates, the recognition of the interactional nature of the interview and the impossibility of standardizing the behaviour of interviewers has led scientists to call for a more flexible approach to how interview are conducted. This article presents the results of a study investigating the procedures put in place by the interviewers conducting telephone interviews and their compliance with the constraints of standardization. The results show strong deviations of the interviewers from the demands of researchers, only in some cases justified by the information obtained in the course of the interaction.

Dried pasta is depicted as the most traditional and popular Italian food culture. Italy has the highest per capita pasta consumption worldwide, but lifestyle changes define new habits and trends in consuming this traditional Italian food. The present study aims to explore organic consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences for dried pasta and, specifically, the relevance of organic and “ancient” durum wheat varieties.Results show limited knowledge of consumers about dried pasta characteristics and the relevance of extrinsic cues, especially those related to expected taste and local origin. Therefore, the most relevant claims for improving the communication strategy of dried pasta are identified. Companies should meet consumers’ preferences by increasing investments in the innovation of this staple food with a focus on improving production processes and packaging design with more effective front-of-pack communication. The findings provide insights into the pasta market, which may help organic companies to enter this new market and make their products more appealing to consumers.

The GAP Local Plan (of the Health Protection Board) provides for a self-help group aimed at families of gamblers.In fact, Gambling Disorder (DSM V) does not only directly involve people who have a gambling problem but also their family members and loved ones; emotionally, economically and socially. Furthermore, the discomfort of the individual often speaks of a group dynamic, of collective suffering. In families the transaction is circular (Selvini, 1975).The Self Mutual Help group created is open to all citizens, as well as to family members of people who have already turned to the Addiction Service for a gambling problem.Self-help groups are based on the natural ability of human beings to be in relationship with each other and to support each other in times of difficulty and it is from these premises that this group also began.The article aims to recount, starting from the fundamentals of mutual self-help, the experience of the first AMA group aimed at family members of gamblers, promoted by the Addiction Service, in the Lodi area.The first observations can be useful for future years and to better develop an opportunity which has as its premise that of helping more and more people who find themselves facing a moment of difficulty.It is precisely the progressive discovery of gambling by family members that is traumatic, generating a climate of mutual distrust, cyclical experiences of illusions/disappointments, uncertainty that determines anxiety, fear and chronic stress (Capitanucci, 2012).The Auto Mutuo Aiuto group can help to emerge from isolation, increase solidarity, understand internal and external dynamics, stimulate new perspectives, bring out resources, feel capable and active. In the ecological-social approach, the family is seen not only as a possible part of the problem, but also and above all as a system open to the community, capable of exchanges and equipped with its own resources to be exploited.

The current study sets out to analyse the concept of "essentially derived variety" (EDV) envisaged by the plant variety protection regime when new breeding techniques (NBTs) are employed in the development of new plant varieties. The use of NBTs to develop new plant varieties has grown rapidly over the last years because of their ease of use and their high efficiency. NBT varieties are mono-parental and retain most of the genome of the initial variety, thus most of its essential characteristics. The problem arises when the initial variety used as the source of genetic variation is a variety protected by a plant variety right. In this case, the question is whether the EDV concept should apply to the second variety obtained by NBTs and what can break the EDV chain. It must be noted that the EDV concept has revolutionised the plant variety protection system since it introduced the principle of "limited dependence" as an exception to the general independence principle governing this system. Therefore, as it is an exception, it should be interpreted rigorously.

Il presente contributo ha l’obiettivo di analizzare due recenti decisioni aventi ad oggetto distinte varietà di grano duro: il provvedimento sul frumento Cappelli dell’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato e la sentenza sul grano San Carlo del Tribunale di Roma. Entrambi i casi riguardano, sebbene in modo diverso, il tema dei diritti di esclusiva sulle varietà vegetali. Nella vicenda San Carlo, tali diritti derivano dalla concessione di una privativa nazionale sulla nuova varietà vegetale. Diversamente, nel caso Cappelli è stata posta in essere una privatizzazione de facto di una varietà antica, in assenza di qualsivoglia diritto di proprietà intellettuale sulla stessa. L’elaborato vuole altresì porre l’accento sull’importanza del miglioramento genetico in agricoltura, necessario affinché vengano sviluppate varietà sempre più produttive, resistenti e sostenibili. Per fare ciò, è opportuno permettere al costitutore di ottenere un ritorno sugli investimenti, mediante il riconoscimento di un’esclusiva sulla nuova varietà. Tuttavia, tale esclusiva non può essere illimitata né estendersi a varietà di pubblico dominio.

Numerose evidenze dimostrano come l’immagine mentale costituisca una forma di rappresentazione della realta che influenza l’attivita cognitiva e comportamentale dell’individuo. La comunicazione tra il corpo e la mente avviene sotto forma di dialoghi mentali attraverso le immagini. Un’immagine e una rappresentazione interna delle nostre esperienze ed e proprio per questo che possiede in se il potere di determinare un cambiamento nelle nostre percezioni, cognizioni ed azioni sul mondo. Tale potenziale rappresenta un punto di partenza determinante per nuove frontiere legate alla clinica riabilitativa. Tuttavia nella pratica accade spesso che alcuni neghino di utilizzare frequentemente le immagini mentali, prediligendo un pensiero di natura "proposizionale"(verbalizer); altri appaiano dotati per un tipo di immaginazione piuttosto che un altro (visualizer). Al di la di cio l’uso delle immagini mentali si basa su un meccanismo mentale basilare da tutti condiviso, che trae origine dall’esperienza e dall’accumulo in memoria di un repertorio di rappresentazioni sensoriali, o comunque concrete, che possono essere utilizzate per la generazione e manipolazione delle immagini mentali nel recupero delle funzioni cognitive-motorie.

In Milan the debate about reconstruction after the Second World War, though influenced by local conditions, reflected most of the arguments and problems that were discussed all over Italy at the time. The protection and restoration of historic heritage was virtually limited to the most important monuments and works of art, whereas in Milan the need to preserve the town center and ancient quarters was not yet widely understood, due both to the lack of effective rules and regulations and to the lack of interdisciplinary dialogue between planners, architects and restoration specialists.